Album Amicorum Alchemy Anthologies & Miscellanies Astronomy Bibles & Bible Commentaries Biographies Books of Hours Breviaries Calligraphy & Writing Manuals Carthusians Chivalric Orders Chronicles Church Fathers Cistercians Devotio Moderna Dictionaries Documents & Charters Dominicans Drama & Theatre Fables & Bestiaries Franciscans Games Gastronomy Grammar & Rhetoric Heraldry & Genealogy Herbals Horses & Veterinary Sciences Humanism Hybrid Liturgy Magic Mathematics Miniature Books Missals Pharmacology Poetry Prints Psalters Reformation Religious Orders Romances Saint Lives Scholasticism Sermons Travel & Voyages Women Studies     2 manuscripts   PSEUDO-JOACHIM, ANSELM OF MARISCO, et al., Vaticinia de summis pontificibus In Latin, illuminated manuscript on paper [Italy, Tuscany, c. 1440]     Previously unknown copy of the mystical series of prophecies, derived from the Leo Oracles, that commingle fantasy, the occult, and history in a chronology of the popes. Executed in Florence, during the exile there of the Roman Curia, our manuscript can be specifically connected to the stormy pontificate of Pope Eugene IV through unusual textual and pictorial elements. Only four copies of this rare work are in North American collections, and the last copy to appear at auction was in 1989.       MULIGIN, IGNATIO FRANCESCO, Il Trionfo d’applausi, e di glorie figurato di purissime lettere di sua altezza reale Maria Anna Christina Vittoria di Baviera Delfina di Francia, nel quale si contengono li seguenti versi, da leggersi nella figura con il microscopion In Italian, manuscript on paper, accompanied by a microscopic drawing (by Pierre Mignard?) [France, c. 1683-84]     Unpublished autograph of an unedited microscopic poem in the form of a drawing (by Pierre Mignard?) and accompanied by a book-length transcription, written by a previously unidentified figure in the papal circle for the Dauphine of France as a diplomatic act intended to influence the King. This extremely rare work (very few such microscopic compositions are extant) preserved in its original binding witnesses the early scientific impact of the microscope on visual and textual transmissions, in this case exploited in the service of state politics at the highest level and presenting a unique program of royal iconography hitherto unanalyzed.